Yemen's army backed by the country's popular committees mounted retaliatory operations against Saudi military bases in Jizan. (AFP)
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- Bahraini regime forces arrest three Shia clerics amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the tiny Persian Gulf state.
- Yemeni forces say they have targeted a Saudi army camp in Jizan with a ballistic missile destroying the base and killing many military personnel.
- The UN says more than 1600 civilians were killed in the first six months of 2016 in Afghanistan, showing a record high in the war-torn country.
- South Koreans stage a new protest rally in the southern town of Seong-ju to denounce a plan to deploy a US missile system to the area.
- German officials say the man behind a bomb blast in the southern city of Ansbach was a Syrian refugee who was denied asylum.
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